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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2200 KP) rated Murder in Vein (A Madison Rose Vampire Mystery, #1) in Books

Mar 9, 2018  
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Murder in Vein (A Madison Rose Vampire Mystery, #1)
Sue Ann Jaffarian | 2010
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Madison Rose is kidnapped and is about to be killed until she is rescued - by vampires. And they want to use her to try to solve a series of murders that threaten their secret existence. Can she even trust them? I enjoyed the book and really grew to like the characters. Some of the scenes were just too dark for me, however.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/06/book-review-murder-in-vein-by-sue-ann.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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David McK (3425 KP) rated The Lost City (2022) in Movies

Apr 7, 2024  
The Lost City (2022)
The Lost City (2022)
2022 | Action, Adventure, Comedy
6
7.6 (13 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Romancing the Stone 2.0?
Like many others, I gave this a miss in the cinema.

A romance novelist (here: Sandra Bullock) drawn into an adventure of her own in the jungle that reads like something out of her own stories after she is kidnapped?

In this case, with her dumb cover model (Channing Tatum) off to rescue her?

So, basically, a modern Romancing the Stone.

At least, that's the impression the trailer gave. Which, I have today, was also largely accurate.

Enjoyable but not earth shaking.
  
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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Fargo (1996) in Movies

Aug 9, 2017  
Fargo (1996)
Fargo (1996)
1996 | Drama, Mystery
8
8.2 (25 Ratings)
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Extremely dark, black comedy based on a true story
That scene woodchipper scene will haunt me for life.

Truth is definitely stranger than fiction. This extremely dark 'comedy' is now infamous in gallows humour. Without revealing everything, a woman is kidnapped by a psychotic conman and his slightly weedy partner for ransom. Her husband is in charge of gaining this ransom from his father-in-law, only for things to go very, very wrong.


It's a classic cult film, not for everyone. But if you loved 'In Bruges', this will be right up your street.
  
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Erika (17788 KP) rated Beirut (2018) in Movies

Apr 21, 2018  
Beirut (2018)
Beirut (2018)
2018 | Action, Thriller
7
5.8 (5 Ratings)
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So, this was billed as a 'taut political thriller'; I'm not sure about that. Maybe it's because I was comparing it to 7 Days in Entebbe the entire time.
Anyway, Jon Hamm plays Don Draper, sorry, I mean, Mason Skiles, who's an alcoholic (see, Don Draper), and is brought back to Beirut after a former friend is kidnapped.
It was a little predictable, I basically figured out the plot in the first 10 minutes, and I'm sure a non movie buff could do the same. It wasn't excellent, it was just good.
  
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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2200 KP) rated The Clovis Incident (A Sasha Solomon Mystery #1) in Books

Mar 9, 2018  
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The Clovis Incident (A Sasha Solomon Mystery #1)
Pari Noskin Taichert | 2004
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
PR consultant Sasha Solomon is putting together a campaign for the New Mexico city of Clovis, which means she gets to see her best friend Mae. Mae is acting weird, however, and with good reason. There's a dead body on her dairy farm. And, oh yeah, she's being kidnapped by aliens. After the first 20 pages, I was fully into this book. It's different but funny with great characters and some wonderful turns of phrase.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/02/book-review-clovis-incident-by-pari.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Andy K (10821 KP) created a post in Movies are the shiz!

Mar 29, 2018  
So I recently discovered Bone Tomahawk. I don't want to oversell, but really great movie. I have to warn you, though, extremely brutal scenes make it not for those with a weak stomach.

It's a western starring Kurt Russell who plays a small town sheriff who embarks on an extremely dangerous rescue mission after a few townspeople are kidnapped by brutal, savage neanderthal Indians.


The journey is wrought with peril of every kind until his posse meets up with the savages, then all hell breaks loose.


Highly recommended.